PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | encephalopathy |
| Phenotype | C0403414|post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 25218027 | This case report illustrates a rare association of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a patient with post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. |
| PubMedID- 26294945 | Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres) associated with acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (psgn) or with other illnesses is rare.1,2 the risk of seizures following pres and its association with diverse illnesses is a growing area of interest and a recently published longitudinal study demonstrated long term seizures in 3 out of 127 patients after a median follow-up of 3 years.3 we report the case of a boy with previous seizures who presented clinically as possible breakthrough seizures so unmasking pres and psgn and focus on the relationship between seizures and pres. |
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